Please Remove Your Veil: String Orchestra Conductor Score & Parts

Lyrical yet energized. The piece balances intimate moments that feel like a confession with passages that surge forward with genuine excitement. The exotic intervals and harmonic colors keep listeners attentive without ever feeling academic.

String orchestras at the Grade 3 level looking for repertoire that engages students with non-Western melodic and harmonic language. Directors seeking a piece that programs well and doesn't require extensive program notes to justify its inclusion.

• Slides need clear instruction: they're ornamental but not optional. Decide as a section whether you're using finger slides or slight pitch bends, then commit to uniformity.
• The syncopated rhythms should feel natural, not labored. Practice them at tempo from the start rather than slow practice that locks in awkwardness.
• Rich harmonies can muddy if intonation wavers. Spend rehearsal time on vertical sonority, especially in sustained chords.

This works as a concert closer that leaves audiences satisfied, or as a festival selection where the combination of musicality and technical interest appeals to adjudicators. Its narrative arc around young love makes it a natural pairing with other vocal or folk-based works.

• Playing slides with control and intonation
• Executing syncopated rhythms against sustained harmonies
• Balancing melodic line against complex harmonic movement
• Responding to non-Western intervallic relationships in tuning